15 May

1565 birth of Hendrick Corneliszoon de Keyser

1723 birth of John Carr
1786 birth of Charles Pierre Gourlier

1879 death of Antoine Isidore Eugène Godebœuf
1879 death of Gottfried Semper
1891 death of Henri Michel Antoine Chapu

Campo Marzio, Fasolo, etc.
1997.05.15     5397b

imagination/Piranesi
1997.05.15     3716 3784b 5397b 9000

Ichnographia Campus Martius first state
2000.05.15     4694g 5300d

one more Piranesian daze: circus act
2000.05.15     e2543 e2607 e2608 e2609 e2611 e2612 e2613 e2614 e2743 e2759 e2844 e3084 5300e

Re: The death of the architect ??
2003.05.15 10:00     3784h

the art of being picky (I guess)
2003.05.15 10:25     3747e

Re: Life in a real museum
2003.05.15 13:59     3749f 3751c 3770h 3773d 3784h 5008

REPORTAGE- Rhythm & Gender
2004.05.15 08:43     3747g 3775h 4014d

Koolhaas Library NY Times
2004.05.15 15:27     3736n 3749g 3773e 3775h 3786i 3794b 4012f 4018h

The Planless House
2006.05.15 15:41     3336x 3770n
2006.05.15 18:35     2344 3336x
2006.05.15 18:42     2305 3336x 3770n

Eisenman's six point plan
2008.05.15 07:49     3333p 3720d 3749n 3756 3768c 3770s 3773h 3775m

Now try taking it to court.
2008.05.15 07:49     3747i
2008.05.15 08:17     3333p 3749n 3770t 3773h 3775n 3787e 4015o
2008.05.15 21:00     3333p 3775n 5027

The Official Paradigm Shift thread
2008.05.15 20:48     3333p 3703c 3704c 3705n 3749n 3773h 4705 7708 7801c

architectural otherness
2015.05.15     3710n

Bjarke Ingels wants to "make the world of the future more like our dreams”
2015.05.15 13:38     3310w 3706e
2015.05.15 14:00     3310w 3706e
2015.05.15 17:35     3310w 3706e 3773q

Brooks + Scarpa   The Six   Los Angeles

Steven Holl   Glassell School of Art   Houston



2003.05.15 13:59
Re: Life in a real museum
Metabolism as a physiological function operates via equal measures of destruction and creation, i.e., catabolism and anabolism. The metabolic is a visceral destructive/creative human process.
Perhaps Venice should be reenacted like the caves with primitive painting in them. Make the original off limits and allow the tourists to visit the facsimile.


2004.05.15 08:43
REPORTAGE- Rhythm & Gender
Regarding Post-Modern Architecture and it's "origin", my first thought was of Jencks' reference of Lubetkin and Tecton's Highpoint II, Highgate, 1938.
Part three of Jencks' The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977), offers a fairly concise 'history' of architecture's seminal works that portend or indeed manifest a post-modernist style.
Some have argued that Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) is the primal manifesto of Post-Modern Architecture, while other's like to point out that Rossi's The Architecture of the City (also 1966) plays an equal role in shifting architecture theory/practice away from strict Modernism.
Post-Modernism in architecture was a much discussed and written about subject. Does it really matter as to what was the precise origin of the "movement"? It doesn't matter to me because official history is rarely as inclusive as it pretends to be.


2004.05.15 15:27
Koolhaas Library NY Times
Compare the new Seattle Library with Kahn and Tyng's design for a Municipal Building, Philadelphia, 1952-57 (as seen on pp. 30-31 of Louis I. Kahn: Complete Works 1935-1974).
Also look at the color sketck on page 27 which is evocative of other the other recent Koolhaas architecture of irregular shape.
Is a book entitled Learning from Early Kahn Philadelphia virtually in the works?

2006.05.15 15:41
The Planless House
there
before

after

not there

2006.05.15 18:42
The Planless House
In fact, you can never have enough walls or columns.


2008.05.15 07:49
Eisenman's six point plan
Eisenman's points/arguments here are either flawed in logic, sentimental, academic, or self-serving. For example, "students are passive," yet the students described here are actually protesting. In terms of practice, deconstruction is one of architecture's most obscure styles and 'post-modernism' is still what the vast majority of architects do. Part of what's historically playing out now is Le Corbusier's late style and Kahn's early 'planning' style.
Anyone else love watching Boston Legal. Now there's a style architecture would do well to emulate.


2008.05.15 08:17
Now try taking it to court.
For the record:
"The duck is the special building that is a symbol; the decorated shed is the conventional shelter that applies symbols. We maintain that both types of architecture are valid--Chartres is a duck (although it is a decorated shed as well), and the Palazzo Farnese is a decorated shed--but we think that the duck is seldom relevant today, although it pervades Modern architecture."
--Learning from Las Vegas, four years after 1968.
Perhaps the case today is that the duck has become (via media) more relevant (to society), and the decorated shed has become more (true to form) ephemeral. I maintain that both these types of architecture are valid.


2008.05.15 20:48
The Official Paradigm Shift thread
multiple choice (so far):
1. typical plan meets eclectic program
2. eclectic plan meets typical program
3. programmatic planning meets typical eclecticism
4. planned eclecticism meets programmatic type
I'd say 2 and 4 characterize a paradigm shift.

2008.05.15 21:00
Now try taking it to court.
"In learning how to draw one began to understand not only what it was like to draw like Palladio or Le Corbusier but also the extent of the differences in their work." Imagine that, learning via reenactment.
It was only after having my own CAD system that I began (in 1987) to redraw Piranesi's Campo Marzio, and I was doing it to indeed learn via reenactment. Ultimately, nine years ago yesterday, I discovered that there are indeed two different versions of the Campo Marzio plan. Imagine that, making a significant architectural discovery because of drawing with the aid of a computer.


09051501.db IQ081 base model   2392i88


14051501 Parkway Interpolation site plan   2278i14
14051502 Parkway Interpolation section   2278i15


15051501 ASouq 000 schematic plan opaque ECCOlivetti Olivetti Milton Keynes plans   2440i01
15051502 ASouq 000 schematic plan opaque Working Title Museum 002 plans model   2440i02   b   c


16051501 Cubist ICM IQ53 plans   2436i57
16051502 Cubist ICM IQ43-53 outline plan   2436i58

17051501   Brooks + Scarpa   The Six   Los Angeles


18051501 Palace of Versailles Chandigarh Capital Complex Palace of Assembly Governor's Palace Tower of Shadows plans   2092i27
18051502 Flick House I site plan plans sections images   2333i06
18051503 Flick House I plans sections   2333i07


18051501   Steven Holl   Glassell School of Art   Houston


19051501   Villa à Garches plans section elevations working data   2151i14


21051501   Lingaraja Temple plan elevation section   207bi02
21051502   Basilica of the Madeleine plan elevation section   207qi01
21051503   Thoronet Abbey plan   207ri01
21051504   Thoronet Abbey plan (elevation section working data)   207ri02





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